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Using Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, I recently upgraded to the latest samba and smbfs via apt-get, and when I mount our windows share via SMB, I'm getting this kind of error:

root@orbital testsmb/test# mkdir "spaces test"

root@orbital testsmb/test# ll
total 5
drwxr-xr-x  3 nobody nobody    0 Aug  4 17:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 nobody nobody    0 Aug  4 17:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x  0 nobody nobody 4096 Aug  4 17:32 spaces test

root@orbital testsmb/test# cd spaces\ test/
dirname: extra operand `test'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
-su: [: =: unary operator expected
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.

root@orbital /spaces# pwd
/home/testsmb/test/spaces test
dirname: extra operand `test'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
-su: [: =: unary operator expected
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.

Even using quotes, single and double, don't work:

root@orbital /spaces# cd ..
root@orbital testsmb/test# cd "spaces test"
dirname: extra operand `test'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
-su: [: =: unary operator expected
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.

root@orbital /spaces# cd ..

root@orbital testsmb/test# cd 'spaces test'
dirname: extra operand `test'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
-su: [: =: unary operator expected
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.

Here is my sanitized /etc/fstab:

//192.168.xx.xx/winshare      /home/testsmb  smbfs   rw,credentials=/etc/samba/winshare.creds,uid=nobody,gid=nobody,auto   0       0

• None of this happens on local file systems.
• Also an older SuSE box with an ancient smbfs doesn't run into these problems.

I'm getting the following errors while trying to install Samba on a ubuntu server 10.04 LTS instance:

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]

Is there any way to workaround this so I don't have to wait for the update servers to come back up? How do I prevent this in the future?

Edit: I found a very similar posting here on askubuntu: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release

But Lekensteyn's answer doesn't work (though it helped the author of the given question)... I still get the following (after switching repo's to in.archive.ubuntu.com):

root@orbital /home# apt-get install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  samba: Depends: samba-common-bin but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not installable
         Depends: update-inetd but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

If all else fails, how will I know when the repository is available again?

After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).

I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an inherited system used for some random work), so no GUI.

Anyone have quick advice here?